Account of Grain
List of contributions in kind
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41972
Account of wheat amounts against personal names TM 41972UnknownIVth/Vth century A.D.
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An ostracon listing amounts of wheat in artabas against personal names, mostly women, beginning with Italikos (34 artabas) and including a 'sister' Sente. It dates to the 4th or 5th century AD; the place is unknown.
In English machine translation
Italikos: 34 artabas of wheat
to Sente, sister: 1/2 1/4 artaba of wheat
to Nike: 1/2 1/4 artaba of wheat
to Philadelphea: 36 1/8 artabas of wheat
to Pasinike: 1 artaba of wheat
to Antiochis: 1/2 1/4 artaba of wheat
to Mneter: 1/2 1/4 artaba of wheat
to Oulkra: 1 1/4 artabas of wheat
[…] 5 1/2 artabas of wheat
[…] 1 artaba of wheat
[…]
The artaba was the standard Egyptian dry measure for grain. The museum description calls this a list of contributions in kind, but the dative names could equally record payments to the persons listed.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Grain). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.1.21
Ἰταλικοῦ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας λδ Σεντῇ ἀδελφῇ πυροῦ ἀρτάβης 𐅵 δ Νίκῃ πυροῦ ἀρτάβης 𐅵 δ Φιλαδελφέᾳ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας λϛ η Πασινίκῃ πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α Ἀντιοχίδι πυροῦ ἀρτάβης 𐅵 δ Μνητῆρι πυροῦ ἀρτάβης 𐅵 δ Οὐλκρᾷ πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α δ […]…[…]…[…]… πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ε 𐅵 […] πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α […] …